Focus IS the singular, right?
Conferences are great for catching up with old friends and colleagues. I have had many conversations today with many people but there is one that stuck for me. Someone was saying about the focus the staff have this year for professional development:
“For this year is on Inquiry Learning
The focus this year for Literacy is Efeective Literacy Practise.
The focus this year for Maths is consolidating the NUMP programme.
Also we are working on SMS Etap across the school
And those of you with IWB’s have a series of day in the holidays to assist you in embedding this technology into your classroom practise.”
So what is the focus for this year?
Someone should mention to senior management that focus is the singular even though it ends with an ’s’.
How are staff supposed to fully focus on so many areas at once?
Is it just this school or do others have similiar long lists of focus (sic) ?
Replace the literacy with ICT and that is exactly our school’s focus(foci!). It is certainly a lot to think about. If you want things done well…
ooohhh … love to report our school focus is ‘effective teaching and learning’ … I like how broad it is, how it leads to conversations about learning and teaching in all contexts - and it is NOT curriculum based - I like the broad focus … but I get the impression you may not like it Simon.